[PATCH 06/13] dt-bindings: mfd: rohm, bd71837-pmic: Add common properties

Rob Herring robh at kernel.org
Tue Sep 15 10:38:38 EDT 2020


On Tue, Sep 15, 2020 at 12:34 AM Vaittinen, Matti
<Matti.Vaittinen at fi.rohmeurope.com> wrote:
>
>
> Hello All,
>
> On Mon, 2020-09-14 at 16:44 -0600, Rob Herring wrote:
> > On Fri, Sep 04, 2020 at 04:53:05PM +0200, Krzysztof Kozlowski wrote:
> > > Add common properties appearing in DTSes (clock-names,
> > > clock-output-names) to fix dtbs_check warnings like:
> > >
> > >   arch/arm64/boot/dts/freescale/imx8mq-librem5-r2.dt.yaml:
> > >     pmic at 4b: 'clock-names', 'clock-output-names', do not match any
> > > of the regexes: 'pinctrl-[0-9]+'
> > >
> > > Signed-off-by: Krzysztof Kozlowski <krzk at kernel.org>
> > > ---
> > >  .../devicetree/bindings/mfd/rohm,bd71837-pmic.yaml          | 6
> > > ++++++
> > >  1 file changed, 6 insertions(+)
> > >
> > > diff --git a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/mfd/rohm,bd71837-
> > > pmic.yaml b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/mfd/rohm,bd71837-
> > > pmic.yaml
> > > index 65018a019e1d..ecce0d5e3a95 100644
> > > --- a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/mfd/rohm,bd71837-pmic.yaml
> > > +++ b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/mfd/rohm,bd71837-pmic.yaml
> > > @@ -32,9 +32,15 @@ properties:
> > >    clocks:
> > >      maxItems: 1
> > >
> > > +  clock-names:
> > > +    maxItems: 1
> >
> > Needs to define what the name is.
>
> Someone once told me that "naming is hard".
> Do we have some good common convention for 32K oscillator input naming?

No.

> Or should it just be dropped?

Yes, having a name for a single entry in *-names is kind of pointless IMO.


> > > +
> > >    "#clock-cells":
> > >      const: 0
> > >
> > > +  clock-output-names:
> > > +    maxItems: 1
> >
> > Ideally this one too, but we've been more flexible on it.
>
> Data-sheet for BD71837 uses pin name "C32k_OUT". So maybe this would be
> good?

What's in all the dts files? I'd go with that if there's any clear
winner. If it's already a random free-for-all, then just leave it
as-is.

>
> BD71838 uses "bd71828-32k-out" . so we could also go with this same
> convention and use "bd71837-32k-out". Or - we could take a risk and
> *assume* typical use case for this clk (as this is typically used with
> i.MX8 I'd guess the 32k is used for RTC) and name it accordingly.

It should be aligned with what the output is called, not what it is
connected to.

Rob



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